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Making of the English Working Class
by E P Thompson
Publisher Comments
"Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency and the early reign of Victoria. Without any reservation, The Making of the English Working Class is the most... ( read more)
List Price $25.00
Your price: $9.95
Used - Trade Paper
Moleskine London City Notebook
by Moleskine
Publisher Comments
A special guidebook, to buy for your own use
or as a gift for your friends.
Ideal for those who travel, whether to see
the sights or for work, as a way of
organizing your trip and to preserve it
for your memory and your records.
Perfect for those... ( read more)
Your price: $16.95
Stationery - Miscellaneous
Past Speaks, Volume II : Sources and Problems in British History Since 1688 (2ND 93 Edition)
by Walter L. Arnstein
Publisher Comments
The Past Speaks provides primary documents arranged thematically to address a number of historical problems. It includes selections on the impact of the French Revolution, Victorian sexuality, and trench warfare in World War I, and chapters on political... ( read more)
List Price $101.95
Your price: $65.00
Used - Trade Paper
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Modern Library)
by Amanda Foreman
Publisher Comments
The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time... ( read more)
List Price $15.95
Your price: $8.95
Used - Trade Paper
The Bolter
by Frances Osborne
Publisher Comments
She was irresistible. She inspired fiction, fantasy, legend, and art. Some say she was the Bolter of Nancy Mitford's novel The Pursuit of Love. She played Iris Storm in Michael Arlen's celebrated novel about fashionable London's lost generation, The... ( read more)
Your price: $30.00
New - Hardcover
Lark Rise to Candleford
by Flora Thompson
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Flora Thompson (1876????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????1947) wrote what may be the quintessential distillation of English country life at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1945, the three... ( read more)
Your price: $18.95
New - Trade Paper
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
by Antonia Fraser
Publisher Comments
No one brings English history alive like Antonia Fraser. In her bestselling books -- including Mary Queen of Scots and The Six Wives of Henry VIII -- she has shown why she is one of the finest contemporary popular historians, someone who brilliantly... ( read more)
List Price $16.00
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper
Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945
by Carlo D'este
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Carlo D'Este's brilliant new biography examines Winston Churchill through the prism of his military service as both a soldier and a warlord: a descendant of Marlborough who, despite never having risen above the rank of lieutenant colonel, came eventually... ( read more)
List Price $39.95
Your price: $26.77
New - Hardcover
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Seapower
by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Synopsis
Henry VIII's domestic life overshadows a now almost forgotten fact: he founded what would become the Royal Navy. When Henry ascended the English throne, the country's fleet consisted of just five ships. At his death, he handed down to his son, Edward VI,... ( read more)
List Price $39.95
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Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy
by Malcolm Gaskill
Publisher Comments
By spring 1645, two years of civil war had exacted a dreadful toll upon England. People lived in terror as disease and poverty spread, and the nation grew ever more politically divided. In a remote corner of Essex, two obscure gentlemen, Matthew Hopkins... ( read more)
List Price $29.95
Your price: $20.50
Used - Hardcover
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